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TIM LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts lonia the Morniitii'vent,April 3, 18i6. [THE TIRES.] The reports from different parts of India re specting the state of our negociations with the .Burmese throw but doubtful and conflicting lights upon the prospect of peace or of continued war with those barbarians. A commercial letter from Ceylon, dated the 18th November, affirms that peace was positively concluded, on condition of the King of Ave indemnifying the Company to the extent of two crores of rupees, and giving them possession of several maritime stations on the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal : while a Calcatta Gazette of the alleged date of Nov: 25, declares, on the contrary, that the above terms, though proposed by Sir Archibald Campbell, had been rejected by the enemy ; who, judging from the expressions quoted, were more disposed to answer the British General by a show of civility, and a display of diplomatic forms, than to enter heartily into the subjects on 'which he had invited them to treat. I f there be not an error in dates, and a substitution of November 2b for October 25 in that assigned to the Bengal .Harkara, from which the above discouraging ac counts are taken, it is not very easy to reconcile the opposite intelligence from Calcutta and Ceylon, unless by presuming that news from Rangoon might have reached Columbo , more Apeedily than the seat of Government in India, and that facts which had been communicated to the commercial residents at the former place on the 18th of November, were unknown ,a week later at Calcutta. It is just possible that peace might have been concluded at the time and on the terms particularized ; but we wish to guard our selves from the supposition of our believing in an event so important on such authority. S;r William Curtis has . advertised, it seems, his o 11 resignation of that seat for the city, in which he has rat and !prospered for so many years. Of this worthy Alderman in his political capacity, we may say with as much truth as it was said of another knightly personage in respect of his soda) qualifications, that the city " could have bolter spared a better man." Whether Sir Wil liam Curtis drew from constitution that over- flowing. exuberance, and seeming frankness of good humour, the semblance of which appeared on most occasions to characterise and grace hip, outward person, or whether it WWI an engine of popularity and advancement, employed on Wet:- and.applied to purposes in which aelf•in terNst had , more concern than genuine attention to the feelings or warfts of others, we shall not narrowly investigate. Sir William bore not affeete&the reputation of being eminently loya on all 'occasions. Ile was at least very dili, gently ministerial in his votes. lie never, during the active periods of his life, missed a division in the 'House of Commous, or failed of being counted on the strongest side. 'rite worthy Al derrowseemed; whenever an outcry.was to be raised for objects considered desirable by the Minister, to strain his throat with greater energy and more signal success than most of his brethren in the trade of partisanship. lie was a jovial, tborougli4oing life.and.fortmie man ; yet with little desperation in his zeal, for the Knight went on, fattening and flourishing every day of his politicalexistence : so that those who held hts Intellectual powers the cheapest, have sel dom accused the worthy Alderman of forget. ting that number " l" was the most valuable figure in arithmetic, or of toi,stAking 4 amongst all his imputed blunders, how to turn that re collection to the best account. Sir William is described by some individuals to have proved himself a kind and active friend. There are others who praise him for being also stanch and iaveteiate hater. lie was, undoubtedly, an easy, adroit, and agreeable man of the world—who 4 , 11110'1,1e kept the one thing needful - in view, Ito matter what course he professed, or appeare'd to follow, so managed his politics ; and his inter- Course With society, es to make both productive of fortune, friends - , and 6-edit. We speak now of Sir William Curtis as of one who has been, and Moiert . no longer upon that Stages %vitich alone has rendered him a becoming subject of free remark and criticism. In those snore engaging scenes of private , life 'Whit+ the worthy Alderman is so well fitted to enjoy; We heartily wish him many future years of undisturbed repose and satisfac. ion Mid) [ - MORNING IfEItALD.I , Parliament leas yet got through but little of its actual business ; and we do not see what probe. bility there can he of the Session ending tip soon as has beets reported, We believe there has been as yet but one, or at most, too commissions for giving the lloyal Assent to Bills, while every thing of. a weighty nature,--such , as. Mr. Peel's judicial Reform Bills; the Insolvent. Act, and the necessary proceedings arising out of the Chun. cry Report, , rernaiwas yet but almost ill embryo. We have , no .doubt but Ministers now sorely re gret ' not htving dissolved the Parliament last Year, at a time when. the WiIIatOIIIIPS4 of wealth, whether real or apparentvwould have brought both mere gumt humour, us well esltioney v into play , at the homier:, than they are likely 1)049 to, witness ; and having let slip the lucky moment, - we should not seaside" , if they Wet* still iliGlified to wall the clitteew of, what the chapter of acci dents may turn up, and ,postpone, the dissolution till after the ensuing harvest. >Seats are said to be wa cheap and plentiful as cucumbers, few people comparatively having money to spare fo r suet , objects ; sad ,fewrr still being willing to risk any great expellee. for, ao object,the tenure of which most weas.ssarily be more than ever un eprritin. Indeed -we 4;1111 hardly imagine et any (flo ppy so absently laid nu ttsin: contested time electiontr;, which; to say nottraig of therein they often. brivz alter, those who engage in tbern , , mare to demoralize the people and, undermine public liberty then arty one cause that can be named. $ [nn ill I'll I, • Uncommon pains have been take'nto excite the most unfavourehio feelings towards th© West India Planters, in the various petit ohs' that have been of late got up with so much industry against tho'Slave Trade. One fact that has all along been strongly insisted upon, as leading to .the most flagrant denials of justice, Is the rejec tion of a slave's testimony in the case of a white freeman. The appeals that have been made in behalf of all the principles of equity on this head sound very plausible. It seems very unjust, at first view, to refuse the evidence of any human being on the ground of his colour; mad the exclusion may easily be made, as it has been, to work upon our sympathies, and to furnish an endless topic of declamation against the 13ritisb Legislature. But the fallacy consists in arguing as if the same principles applied to the negro population of the West Indies as to the papilla. tien of Great Britain, educated under an en lightened Government, and whore the laws are administered to g a free people. Looking, not to the sentimental, but to the cummou sense, view of the rule which rejects the evidence of slaves, it clearly operates more to their protection than to their prejudice. Suppose the. Master to be charged with a crime, and that his slave, if called as a witness, could give evidence that would tend to prove his guilt. The first attempt of the Master, of course, would be to use his influence, as well as his power, over the slave, to make him either withhold his evidence or swear falsely in his behalf. If he refused to do either, but give his testi mony in open court, and the master should after All, chance to he acquitted, what would be the fate of the slave? Suppose two or more slaves to give evidence in any, case against their master, which might go to convict him of the offence charged, would not the chance be, that in almost every such case, the master would bribe or terrify other of his slaves to impeach such testi mony, and to perjure themselves in his behalf? It is not obvious what a ehannel would here be opened for intrigue, and fraud, and villany, among the worst of the slave population, and what a source of dismay and suffering to the better order? It is on a principle near akin to that we are adverting to,• that our laws do not admit a wife, in criminal cases, to give evidence either for or against her hos. band ; because it would lay a ground for divi sions und quarrels,and expose her to a vengeance against which, being subjected to the power of tier husband, she could not defend herself, It is the policy of our law to present any per trons from being placed, as witnesses, in a situa tion in which their interest may induce t! em to depart from the truth. Will any one say that a slave is not in this situation, or that the interests of justice, as, well as humanity, do not require that he shouid be defended from the oppres,ion to which he would be exposed, were this policy departed from ? The British Parliament is wisely anxious not to interfere with the Colonial system of slavery ; and if the local Legislatures appear in some instances slow in administering altera tives, it is likely that they see enough in the nature of the disease to justify great caution in the application of the remedies. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK, FRIDAY, MARCH 31. HORRID MURDER. Mich Oil Ford, a native of Ireland, was indicted for the wil ful murder of Richard Perry, on the fith of December last, at Birtitlnghinn, by giving him two mortal blows on the head with a cleaver. The prisoner pleaded " not guilty."' The pe. cant atrocity of the case made it an object of such interest, that the Court was literally crammed ; and it was with dill). milt.; the javelin..men could prevent the crowd in the hail from overpowering them. The Clounsel for the prosecution called the following witnesscat— ' Miss Mary Perry examined by Mr. CLATM—I am the niece of the deceased, who kept a grocer's shop, in Mary-Ann.. street, Birmingham. I have known the prisoner for a short time. I had often seen him at my uncle's shop ;he was in the habit of purchatting things there, and my uncle gave him credit, end he used to pay weekly.. I saw him in the shop on the night of the Ifith December a little after ten o'clock. The prisoner was standing at the middle of the counter, my uncle was on the inside ; I was in the kitchen, and my aunt was in the shop. lat first heard persons talking in the shop, and on in out I saw a person - in the shop; he asked for a hock of pock; he said be could pay for it, in order that his bill might not be so large on Saturday night,. I then looked into the shop and saw the prk senor. My aunt came from the shop and went into the cellar. ] heard the chopping ofpork on the block ; in about tenminutett after that I heard the money drawer fall the money rattle. I then got up and went towards theshop door. On looking through the glass door I saw the prisoner with the cleaver in his hand; he held it raised up in both hands ; he wail coming to wards the kitchen. I said to him " you have' murdered my uncle." He mad no reply. I then wrenched the clearer from his hands, and dashed it upon the ground. I threw him down upon' the &Or, after which I ran through ,the shop into the street, and gave an alarm by screaming out murder. The pri • boner ran out alter me and escaped. When I was running through the shop I saW my uncle lying behind the counter; there was blood upon his face. On my crying out, my aunt came from the cellar. When I returned I found her in the ebop. SV'e tried to lift The deceased up, but could not. Ile bad wounds upon his head ; he was conveyed into the kitchen. When I came back I saw the money lying about my uncle, and the drawer upon the floor. I gave the cleaver to Anne Smith, who came in when the alert)) was given. - There were marks of blood upon the comer and on the drawer. lily uncle , had a straw hat on' when I saw him talking to ithe prisoner There was no one in the shop when I met the prisoner with the cleaver in his hand. The cleaver produced by .Me. Atkins is the one I took from the prisoner, and the drawer is the one I found upon the ground, and in which the. money was kept; the fiat producedis &Jane my uncle wore. I made it for him ; the cuts now visible were not in it when I made It. The psi.. fitment - pia-book was foetid upon the corner. My uncle died on the following day, and he never spoke after I saw him on the ground. Hannah Perry. am the widow- of the deceased; I had known the prisoner about 3 weeks before my hushand's death ; the prisoner wes employed by my husband to take in some po.. taws he bought a loaf and some bacon at our abut on the morning of the kb of December; he had a book, in which 'the. articles were set down ; I remember his coming about, ten o'clock on the night of the murder ; he asked.for sugar, coffee, bacon, arid other articles ; my husband end I gave them to him ; the deceased was behind the counter;. the articles were entered in the prisoner's book ; after that the prisoner asked for a hock of pork; my husband chewed him one, and asked him if he should chop ? lie said "yea," but not to enter it in tlie'boolc:" husband chopped it on a block near the shop door; and. left it anti the cleaver on the block ; .toy, husband stood with his back against the counter, and his foot upon the block ; the prisoner was close ,to him; I then went into the kitchen to - get tuitne beer from the cellar ; there was no strang:r in the shop after the prisoner came in ; my mete was sitting in the back kitchen. I was hi the cellar about live minutes, when I heard the money. fail. I then ran up stain', and heard my , niedo exelninung, "he has murdered my uncle 1 1 ' As alit as came into the shop, I saw the prisoner going down the *tape from the door, I looked about the shop and could not see my husband at first. I, afterwards found hint lying near the tire place. Ilk head was near a tub. I laid hold of his shoulder to taise him up, and, rceived, that Waimea WAS bleed .ink in a dreadfUl manner. I was not able to lift lihn up. A great Untidier of persons came in anti helped to remove him moo theback kitchen. I sent for. two surraiuna. Mr..E.Aingtoa came farc e.: , , Mr. Vilnius Russell Elkingtorr eistithied—l am a surgeon , on the night. ,of: t hat of and resideat Birmingham. I.Wai willed In to see the deceased eleven. . I found linn'aupported in a chair in tile back kitchen. December, abept wiener before He was quite aermelesn. 1 examined kris head, and had hint taken up stairs. I took off the handkerchief and examined the wotinds. I removed several pieces of bone from about the wound on the forepart. The wound on that part was six inches long.. It tilt through the bone and the membrane of the brain to the depth of about an inch into the head. There was another wound on the back part of the head, about five inches and a half long ; it_ penetrated an inch into the substance of the brain, apart of which was visible on the outer surface, each of those wounds was sufficient to cause death. It hardly could be expected that a man could recover from them. They no. doubt caused Mr: Perry's death. The cleaver produced would inflict such.wounds, which must have been given by a sharp cutting instrument. _ Robert Boughey was then called. He said, I am a police officer of Liverpool. I heard of the murder. I went in search of the e prisoner, having received a description of his person. I saw him at eleven o'clock on the morning of the ath of December standing near the pier head of St. George's dock, Liverpool. He was going on board the City of Dub lin steam-packet, which was almost ready to sail. I watched him till he went on board. Ile had his left hand in his breeches' pocket all the 'time. I went up to him and desired him to take it out. On' his showing his hand I per ceived that the first joint of the third finger was broken, and that the little finger was crooked. These -marks agreed with the description in the handbills. On being asked his name, he said it was John Banbury, and that he had never been in Bir mingham, and that he had arrived from Manchester on the preceding night. I charged him with the murdei of Mr. Perry, but he denied it in the most positive manner. I took him into custody, and conducted him to Birmingham with the assist;. ance of Atkins. _ _ _ The prisoner, when asked for his defence, said, " I am in nocent of the crime now kid to my charge. I had nothing to do with it." Here the prisoner handed in a paper, on which he had written his defence, which was to the following effect. '- My Lord and Gentlemen—Now hear the unfortunate and innocent mr.n that stands before you. Although I am in a strange country, and there is not a single eye here that knows me, I am sure there4ue many hearts that pity my awful situation. 1 went fit London to Birmingham to get work. I was on friendly terms with the deceased. When I bought the things at his shop on the night of the Gth of December, 1 asked hint to allow me to leave them there till the next morning. Ile said 'Do so.' I went away, and when near my own lodgings I heard a cry of mur. der. I went back inwards Mr. ferry's shop ; there were Bove• ral persons round the door. They said Mr. Perry had been murdered, and that the villain had escaped. Fearing that suspicion might fall upon me, and not knowing the laws, I walked on and &Lammed to go back to my own country. I am now convinced l did wrong in going away, as there is laW in England for 'the poor as well as the rich. I am accused of slaying a good friend, but l am innocent. Look at the little sum of money found on me. When misfortunes happen to people, their friends are too apt to suspect the first person they see. I am not able to explain how improbable • the evidence against me is—l know my counsel can't speak for me, but My Lord Judge' is always, the prisoner's counsel. Don't remember the false stories against me. They ought not to be believed. I now once more assure you, that the blood of this man is not at my hands." The Learned Judge summed uP the evidence, and the Jury after consulting for a fel/ moments, declared the prisoner ,Guyty. _ _ Mr - . Justice LiTTLEDALE proceeded to pass the dreadful sentence of the law, and addressed the prisoner in the follow. ing manner. Prisoner, you have been convicted of the murder of the de ceased, who had shown you frequent acts of kindness. I can not imagine what could have led you to perpetrate such a deed, except the desire of taking the deceased's money. I cannot hold out the 'tut hope to you; your life must be short, and is now forfeited to the laws. I therefore advise you to endeavour by penitence to sync for your offences. The Learned Judge concluded by passing sentence on the prisoner, who is to be executed on Alonday - next. The prisoner, from the commencement the end of the trial, which lasted five hours, preserved a wonderful coolnesi and composure, which almost amounted to indifference. HOME CIRCUIT-MAIDSTOI!IE.-SATURDAY. Igrawrtcm.---June Dartuall was indicted for the wilful murder of her female bastard child, by sullbcation, at Scale, on the 12th March last. Mr. MARSIUM conducted the prosecu don, and Mr. Dowt.mt the defence. 'The Jury acquitted the prisoner of the murder, but found her guilty of endeavouring ,to conceal the birth, and, under all the eiretunstaneei, she waa sentenced to 3 months' imprison ment in the common jail. litonwaY HonusitY.—Jornes Willeocks was indicted for assaulting John,Shati, on the King's highway,' at Davington putting him in fear, and forcibly taking from his person a 511 bank note, lOs., and n pocket-book. Mr. ANDREWS and Mr. Dowmsr o conductedAlfe defence. The defence suggested was, the prosecutor , had-been robbed by two of his shipmates, who had absconded, and had never since been seen. The prisoner had voluntarily surrendered, on hearing that there was a war rant against him. On the-morning after the robbery, he had borrowed ludf.a-crown of his .landlady. ' Several witnesses gave him a good character. Mr. Baron UnAtiAsr summed up the evidence for the. Jury with great minuteness. Aftit considerable- deliberation, the .July found the prisoner Nut aunty. John "Wave; a young man of respectable appearance, was indiaod for-S buighwy and robbery in the dwelling-house of John Cork; at Stanlehurat, on the 2.1t1 of March. The Jury found, him Guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy, in which recommendation the prosecutor Most ur gently joined. Sentence of Death was recorded.' John Reif was indicted for stealing, at Crayford, on the 12th March, a horse, the property of Thomas Buck. The prisoner said in his defence that he bad been eruploYed by another man to effect a sale of the' hotid;'.Out he called no witnesses to prove the titct. ' - The Jury found the prisoner Gailt;; , ,:ttlidteolnce of Death was recorded. The business ended on Sattirday eVeningrknd but for the as sistance of Air. Serjeant DOYLEY,' v2llo'o4t two days in a school-room for the ttial of minor offenders, probably the As. sizes would have lasted until Tuesday. None of the capital convicts were left for execution. TAUNTON, Tito II DAV, 31Anctr 30. StEAr MG DEAD BODIES.— Wiithlln Clarke, alias William Taylor, was indicted for stealing four dead bodies from the church-yard of Walcot, in Bath. It appeared partly from the evidence, and partly from the prisoner is own c,onfession, that he had been accustomed to the resurrection business .since he was aix years of age ; and, from that time to the present, had assisted in the procuring of 2,000 bodies for anatomical purposes. For these, when sub. jects were scarce, he had been paid as high as 10 guineas a piece. Flu had been tried 28 times for this description of offence, but, from various causes, had 'escaped from all but two of the indictments: on those he was convicted and pu nished. 'rite particular offence in question, was only one of a class committed by the prisoner, as a part of his system. He, with an understrapper, hired a small house in a yard which corn. mantled a view 01 Walcot burial-ground, so that when - people were buried, he and his companions were fully aware of dine, place, and subject; and they had acted with such p i r n is d o u n s e t r r , y s and regularity, that between October and February t h ey h a d plundered alcot burial-ground of at least 415 bodies.- These were packed up in hampers, and forwarded to London by the house ßath c W o a a s ci a l ga . rel O te n d ; a an d d isc t o li v r e e r e y bodies bein re g w n e ‘ade tb , the und packed in hampers for conveyance by the coach; and a tomtit in a closet, covered with straw. In the cellar, there was found an immense quantity of butnan bones, admittedly in a state of preparation to make skeletons. The prisoner, in his defence, did not deny the charge ; but complained bitterly of, the medical gentlemen not coining for ward in his support as they had promised. He was found guilty, and before judgment begged very herd for mercy. He represented' that subjects must be had for put. poses of medical science; that the obtaining and acting upon them was very advantageous to the living ; and he even drew some connection between his profession and loyalty to die So vereign ; for he assured the Court that when his Majesty (God bless flint) had a complaint which rendered surgical operation necessary, lie (the prisoner) had procured four snljectt foi a preliminary operation, two of which were for the exclusive use Of Sir A. Cooper. Islr. Justice Bratnotsort, pai i n o g ne j r. udgt H n e en (thet , sludge)express ed his disgust, at th e conduct of the isnis cited not who were of opinion that euch,practices ought to be tolerated: the law forbad them ; and his own feelings en entirely accorded with the law. lie was sorry of inconvenience was susbined by the practisers of medical science ; but it could not be endured that ' such conduct as that of the pri soner, denounced as it was by die exis ti ng law , should pass un- Eunished. His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to pay a tine to the King of 100/. ; and be imprisoned for the space of 12 calendar months. The Assizcs , at this town will close this evening, and will conclude the western circuit, on which no prisoner has yet been executed, Dyer, who was left for execution at Winchester, haV ing been reprieved. V ESTIIIS MOVVit with her beauti ful Iron Greys from the neie,hhourhooti of Gore lane, Brompton, to Kensington. Query—to Kensington Gore ! If er next move, it is thought, will be to Nil-town. VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. The letters recently received from Van Die men's Land give .a most unfavourable account of the state of affairs in that settlement, both in, a moral and political point of view ; no encourage ment is held out to induce emigration ; numbers who have left this country with a little property, have been -reduced to beggary. The-present Go vvrnor is much disliked, both by the settlers and the convicts; a system of severity toWards the latter is pursued, which is thus noticed in the Supplement to the llobart-Town . Guzette, April 22, 1825 :,--- " On Saturday, and also to-day, a scene was exhibited in the Lumber-yard most dreadful to behold ! The Commandant . (Colonel Balfour, of the 40th , regiment,) thinks that by a very se vere mode of flogging he will repress all disor ders. He has got a very strong man to flog, who occupieV itbilut 20 minutes whilst inflicting 50 lashes. But to see' the deplorable state of men ! two I saw who were cut round the throat, under the armpits, on the ribs and belly ; ,Oh! it was horrible to seer Our worthy pastor declared in the church, on Sunday, that he could not rest the night before, owing to the dreadful cries of some of the sufferers. lam afraid that this mode will drive many into the bush ; for I have heard some of them declare, that sooner than receive 100 lashes they would do something to get .hanged.! Nine were tortured on Saturday, four this day, and seven were ordered for to-morrow, the , most for trifling crimes, such as being too late for muster, or absent from work." It is said that the measures adopted are not at all calculated to reform the convicts. Many of these wretched beings are treated with the ut most indignity, and having no character to main. .taini they become reckless, and desperate in crime. The scarcity of.females is described as a most alarming evil. It has been suggested, that it would desirable that Government should send out the wives-of convicts in many instances, as it has been observed that married men in the colony con duct themselves with most propriety, and are the most industrious, sober, and honest. THE CQNVICT CATPIERIMI: rEttßlS.—The fate of the above young female, which has occupied so much of the attention of the public, and engaged their sympathies in so lively a manner, has at length been decided on. On Thurs day evening an order was received from the office of the Right Honourable the Secretary for -the Home Depattrnent, com manding her enlargement from the gaol of Newgate, in the cells of which she had been confined for nearly 12 months past, waiting in anxious suspense the moment when the last dread fiat of the law would be carried into execution, and she was to pay the forfeiture of her life for the commixion of a crime of which it has since been ascertained she had been perfectly guiltless. The circumstances attendant on' her ap prehension and subsequent liberation are briefly these. In the early part of last spring, a Mr. Marsh, while passing through Wentworth street, Whitechapel, was robbed by three of the abandoned females who infest that neighbourhood, of a considerable sum of money. He lodged information of the occurrence at Lambeth-street police-office, and from the de scription he then gave of the persons of those who lundered him t suspicion became attached to Ferris and a girl named -Davis, who, in consequence, were taked into custody, and on the identification of Air. Marsh, fully committed to Newgate. Their trial took place at the ensuing sessions, and Mr. Marsh being then equally positive as to their identity, they were found guilty, ,and sentenced to suffer an ignominious death. His Majesty's clemency, however, thrtunately interfered,- and granted a respite for an indefinite period. Sonic circumstances subsequently transpired which led to the opinion that Ferris was innocent, and it is but jratice to Foster, one of the offi cers of Larabeth-street, to say, that to the activity which he' exercised is its complete establishment attributable. From the first he entertained doubts of her guilt, which were afterwards' confirmed by private information • and from day -to day he WAS unwearied in his exertions unti l he had the real criminal: in custody, and brought before the Magistrates for examination. On that occasion they acknowledged that they were the persons w ho, in conjunction with Davis, had committed the robbery, and completely exonerated Ferris. from any participation in their guilt and in corroboration of their'statement, witnesses were produced tvho left no doubt of its veracity. They, bow-. ever, (Mr. Marsh 'being confined as a lunatic in St. Luke's Hospital, and consequently unable to prosecute), have for the present escaped punishment, and were discharged on giving se c u rity for their future good behaviour. When the above cir cumstances attained publicity, a memorial was prepared and presented to Mr. Peel, detailing the discovering, and the proofs of Ferris's innocence, and praying for her liberation. That Right Hon. Gentleman at 'once WA the subject into considera tion, and directed a reference to be made to the Magistrates of Latitheth-street, who, in obedience, Made a report, confirma tory of the proof's having come under their cognizance, and on this his Majesty was graciously pleased to issue his free par don for the guiltless sufferer. ' A GENUINE MAJOR LONOBOW.—There is a this time, in Marion District, South Carolina, a boy child, the son of a black woman, belonging to Mr. M'Leod, who, at the age of three months, walked a quarter of a mile with ease, and without assistance. lie is not quite nine months, yet speaks sensibly and deliberately, rideion horseback to any place,,witen assisted to mount, and does not weigh more than from eight to ten pounds. lie oft-times grasps the horse firmly by the mane, throws his feet in the air, and performs several antic tricks with all the agility of an equestrian monkey. Dr. WKenzie, who has the•mother of the boy under his charge, vouches for the cor rectness of the above statement . besides others who have been eye-Witnesses of the fact. — (American Pver.) Belpre it is too late, it is to be hoped (het some liasit wilt be. put to the extraordinary and preposterous size of the bonnets now. exhibiting for sale during the ensuing spring, for no car. riage is large enough for more than one ; and as to those unlucky wights who happen to be seat ed behind one of them at a theatre, it will be an utter impossibility for them to see any thing but the dingy hanging draperies which represent the The'milliners.are indeed interested in introducing such fashions to warrant high charges; but we wonder that our fair countrywomen can be so taken in, uniess.perhaps it is intended to substitute them for parasols, and thus rid them selves of one incumbrance. To be serious, such monstrosities should be decried, us they can only suit the fair sex in'Surinarn and Demerara. HooAwitr, soon , after he first • set up his car riage, had occasion to pay a visit to the Lord Mayor (Mr: Beckford). When he went the weather was fine, but business detained him till a violent shower of rain came on. H e was l et out of the Mansion-house by a different door ' from that , at which he entered, and seeing the rain, b e g an immediately to call a hackney-coach. Not one was to, be met with on any of the neigh bouring stands., and the artist sallied forth to brave the storm, and actually . reached Leicester fields without bestowing a thOught on his own ' c arriage, till Mrs. flogarth, surprised to see him so we t anti splashed, asked hint where he had left it ? • Per Quarter. Mnwick Andover Arundel .. Ashborne Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath . . Ulandford Bridgewater Bridport Bristol Bury St. Edmund's Cambridge Canterbury Car lisle __ -- Chard ___ Chebn.ford Chesterfield 'Colchester Daventry _ ... Derby Devizes • Doncaster Dorchester I ,Exeter cEyc Gloucester Guildford Henley HeXil3M Hornet's Ile . Hull Hungerfirrcl : Huntingdon Ipswich Leech Lewes . Lrictstei Liocoln Loughborough ... Lout Lynn . Maidstone. ;.. ; .. ".4 Market Harboruugh Morpeth' Newbury Newcastle Newport (Isle ut Wight) Nort liampttot Nortinglinin N Q I3V I C 11 4 Plymotn Reading ltotosey Salisbury Sandwich Sheffield Sbepton Mallet She. but n e Stamford . . Sunderland Swansea .. • • • • Taunton Truro Upping ham (Jxbrirhe \Vantage ‘S'armi lister W inchester Withech Yarmouth Yeovil York. Pet Bush e l. ... Birmingham Buckingham Clielt en ham Coventry Hereford... N meat! le (Staff.) No, haiku on Oxford Pent ith Penzance .. Shrewsbury Stafford W 44 wick . , % ut ccst er 19 37 28 $2 26 34. 36 34 427 3o 13 36 12 37 31 38 34 37 11 41 i 0 0!- , 1 347 SO 3:i it 38 • 35' 33 91 (Beans. 13 9 i 0 45 13.46 11 45 23 46 17 33 30 isi 11 39 IN 3 o 581 12 38 Per 8011. Barnartleastie , Darlington Durham Stanhope Sttielitoll ... Wolsinghani Pease. l'•@ '• ss I— as. 147 5Z 38 40 38 44 41 , 30 34 46 50 30 Sff 40 48 18 4 , 2 44 5 4 14 48 146 54 34 48 16 40 34 SR 14 52 14 52 -16 54 30 34 31 38 40 56 IP 3& 15 11 47 !t; /81 38 4: 34 8; 33 Sf 38 4( 40 5 40 4 4:3 48 40' 10 25. 44 its t 2: 24 IS 14 30 11 97 14 IS 17 241 44 4!,, 50 56 34 40 44 50 40 46 44 50 .i 5 49 44' 60' 46 63 10 44 PP ...Jr' .2 5 143 47 Sri 46 42 4a 13 24' 17 - 18 24 1 46 .40 6 42 U 481 13h- 44 1 40 46! 40 54 S 6 2$ 143 54 'Ai 46 COUNTRY MARKETS DURING THE LAST WEEK. (Wheat 1Barle) Oats. 4.®S. 151 64 6 , 2 66 60 (i 4 58 68 SG 7!i 54 60 54 6q 60 64 34 .-6141 s.@ s. 40 44 •14 43 40 4541 4 64 b 8 63 GO 89 b 4 79 51 6b 61 15 99 , 10 la 49 :30 XI -15 91 ,i 0 36 27 36 :0 96 28 MI 27 31 A 63 i 4 64, 61' 28 353 30 38 29 34 it 41 28 39, 30 3* 16 32 211 30 Si 40 S 9' ti 14' .5 6 5 - 7 9 ..... S 7 $ 9 itt) 7 9 , 8 --- - 10 9 10 8 7 -1 14 24 20 5 4 - 3 4 - 13 16 14 16 '4 15 14 16 14 lb $ 16 to to 11 6 9 L. CORN EXCHAVOI: 42 48 1 36 40 14 41, 48 IS 4i 15 SP '34 36' 36 .38' 17. 43Y 44 60 36 46 --s 14 45 If; 54 7' -- I 7 s 9 S 10, $ 6 ~- ~. , +" ,► -• 7 5i 5 {... II is 11 1. 6 1 0 1 — — I I I 1..„.,, .... 10 1 10 1. LIVCNPOI Owing to the prevalence of contrary winds the greater pare of last week, our supply ha 4 been much curtailed. We, have.. had a fair demand for Wheat and Oats to the flour-dealers here, as well as for the inferior markets; and almost the whole of the large arrival of the week previous has been taken out of the market. This day's market was thinly attended, and but a very moderate business done, in consequence Of the scarce ness of samples. Dealers refrained buying, looking to a more Malting . Barley, and Beans.er pack higher. plentiful assortment , as the wind is now fair. i'lllteat in gene ral was about 3d. per bushel dearer, and (Mils Id. Better , ii . r l i o cr ir wwaesreiso.bptaerinsedack,foarnd3loalatitme4 is. p wheat, English, Old New 9s 9d a I.ls :id Dittosound , 15 Oil a Os 04 Scotch, Now Canada (free) ' dt , 9d a ps 3 ( 1 ' , Foreign (free) Irish, Old New 9s fld il 9s ild Barley, English, Old Os 04 a Os Od per Inver/Id'. New Foteign (free) Irish, Old i - , New . Scotcll,oid ...... New Oats, Potato, Old Os 0-.1 a Os Od per 45Ibe. . . New Limerick, Old New Welsh, Potato. New 94 ad a %s lid Foreign (fire) Os 04 n Os 04 Nlalt, Fine 7 , 6,1 ~ 7s 9d per Imperial. DIM, tniddlink..., Ss 94 a 7s oil Beans, Ohl New inperline Flour, Old N,w bls 0d 'a 53s o 1 Oatmeal, Old —s 0(1 a —s On per 840 lbs. New American Flour, sweet, (in bo n d) 1 23 s O d a 94s 04 per barrel of 196ihs. nor.—Sour, font iit bond), .313 s a 3ls. Import of Grain for the Week ending :March 27. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. Sacks Irish* Ilush.7olb Bush.hOlh Bush. 451 b For.l3rls per 28014 47,1(.0 43,36 t) 90 ,1 70 100 8,680 Packs of Oatmeal, per g4olbs. 7.11. /11111118, On the 31st ult., the Counter" of Orford, of a daughter. () , n the 30th ult., at Champion Hill, the lady of Atrin.b'rulth, Esq., of a ton. On the 28th ult., at Holme, York, the Hon. Airs. Langdale" of a ton. MARRIED. On the 213th, ult. at Plynipton St. Mary, Win. John Clark , t Esq. of Bucklaueliouse, to Matilda, filth daughter of Patti, '.'teby Treig, Esq., of Plynipton. - On the aUth utt., the Rev. Fred. C. Blackstone, Rector of Worting, and Vicar of Ileckfield, flatus, to Elizabeth, daughte r of the late Charles Ranken, Esq. DIEM On Sunday night, March 26, at his house on Sion Hill, Bath, A most honourable and exemplary man very suddenly, Thos. Blake, E s q., to the 79th year'of his age. ,and a pious Christian. Henry Brandt, At Pimlico, on the 26th ult., Mr. Ttionuts Anther, aged 27. At Offenbach, near Frankfort.on-tbe,maine, of an affiction of the heart, John NVillistn, ag,..d 13, 'eldest xon of Emanuel On the 30th ult, Charles, the youngest son of 11r. Illackar. ness, of J ohn-street, Bedford.row, aged 13 months. On. the 27th ult., ,hoir t; ESq., of St. 11 elen's.plsce,` 'London. chalaz, of Chtpton 3iiddle,sez 7 Esq.,. in the 69th yesq ot tia age. ........ t ; I : I h 131COPH ELy J . lETOICS ; at the Su% ---- Printeudt.atee;levP•eilsitais.hiedilifa,srur j_ ~murrxtliti. s.®3. 32 29 33 30 31 34 37 32 36 32 36 30 35 30 35 i,@ s 22 20 25 27 21 27 21:1 29 28 24 3C 1/ 5R 7fi 10 Gi i 0 6 59 74 50 66 li3 (3, iU 65 64' 62 51 -5(.'